De Kock stars in South Africa's hard-fought win

Sri Lanka have been going through a barren run in the ODI format since the 2015 World Cup, capsulised by the point that they have lost nine bilateral series in that period. During tough times, Sri Lanka would have hoped to paddle through the endless tunnel of darkness to reach safer waters. Unfortunately for the island nation, they still seem to be stuck in the tunnel as they slid to a four-wicket loss in the second ODI against South Africa in Dambulla, on Wednesday (August 1). On a surface that looked quite tricky to bat on, the visitors chased down the target of 245 in 42.5 overs to take a